Coe was driving through east London when he spotted the two 16-year-olds hugging on the pavement.

He pulled over to confront the pair, demanding to know if they were Muslims, before calling the boy's girlfriend a "whore".

He then grabbed the boy by the throat and threw him to the ground before kicking his head as he lay there, leaving him unconscious and bleeding from two head injuries.

When passing school teacher Boutho Siwela tried to come to the teenager's aid, he was also attacked.

Coe, who is 6ft 1in and weighs 16-and-a-half stone, admitted "shoving" the boy, who is half his size, but claimed he was acting in self-defence.

In a victim impact statement, the youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the attack had left him frightened of older men.

Reading from the statement, prosecutor Jonathan Polnay said: "He feels the offence has affected his life quite a lot. He doesn't see his friends outside of school.

"He has also split up with the girl who was his girlfriend at the time."

He continued: "He said he is now worried and scared of older men and what they might do. He says he doesn't know the man who did this to him and he is very scared for his life if he was to come in contact with him again, because the attack on him was so random."